Whatever Happened to That Kid Who Could Spell "Potato" When Quayle Could Not? Hint-He Didn't Make It to Harvard

Catching up on this week's Pop Culture we find a fellow who got his finger stuck in his gas tank and a couple who made mad love on a roof to end up dead.

Some news on the Berlin polar bear cutie, Al Gore's daughter yaps about nothing, Prince William gossip about his girlfriend and my own comments about William and Harry's joke of an initerview.

And whatever happened to that kid who could spell "potato" when VP Dan Quayle could not? Think he ended up a genius at Harvard?

Heh.

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Quote of the Day "It was incredibly annoying. What can I say, the Internet is the land of the great sucker punch," laughs Jaleel. "It's just unfortunate that people can do that to you and kind of hide behind anonymous names." - Jaleel White on the Internet rumors that he died. ******* "I'm not that good at it. I find the odor noxious. But my wife is, like, boom, boom, bing, boom." - Ben Affleck on changing diapers ******* "Unattractive people are more obsessed with looks." - Rae Dawn Chong

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Polar Bear Brings Attention and Money to Berlin Zoo

Knut is cute, the visitors to the Berlin Zoo love him, he brings in money.

From Zoo-Berlin:

Knut is the newest star of Berlin Zoo. The little polar bear was born on Dec. 5, 2006, the first polar bear to be born in Berlin Zoo in over 30 years.

The Berlin Zoo web site also has Knut videos, Knut wallpaper, Knut pictures and much more.

Heh. You never know what will capture humans' fascination.

Kristin Gore Pens a Book

While she'll never sell as many books as mine own wise self has, we'll be sports and have a look-see into what sorts of tales Al Gore's daughter offers the reading public.

From NYTIMES.com:

Although he has successfully removed himself from Washington, you yourself are occupying the West Wing, at least imaginatively. Your forthcoming novel, “Sammy’s House,’ is a political satire set in the White House. Is that a case of wishful thinking? Not at all.

I am very happy living on the opposite coast from D.C. Any writing teacher tells you to write what you know, and for better or for worse, Washington is a world I know well.

One amusing tidbit from this NY Times adoration piece on Gore is how afraid she was after the 2000 elections when folks stood outside of the VP residence and chanted for her and her family to "get out of Cheney's house".

Heh. I had a lot of friends doing that chanting and almost went down there myself.

Al Gore will go down forever as a tight-ass sore loser in the annals of American history.

Now he must save us from global warming.

Heh.

An Idea for Local Republican Parties

Here in the swamps of Delaware the Republican party struggles to gain members in this blue state that has quite a bit of red in it.

I've attended a few GOP strategy sessions and silly me, I've always espoused the notion that in order to reach the public you must actually TALK to the public. So when I read this story about how one church got to meet members of the community and thus a chance to invite them to a church service, I got to thinking that this was a great idea.

From News8austin.com:

One Cedar Park church is reaching out to the community by helping to take the pain out of paying at the pump.

Northview Community Church held a gas buydown Saturday at a local Chevron station. The church paid 30 cents per gallon off the price of gas. Church members also cleaned windshields.

Of course there's a cost to it but we assume that the endeavor embarked upon had a cost and this was understood. So the above church could have planned a free picnic for local residents or perhaps a street carnival. They were willing to spend some bucks to reach possible converts is what I'm saying here.

The notion of selling gas at .30 a gallon cheaper as well as washing windshields seems like a stroke of genius in terms of return for recruiting buck.

First, everyone buys gas. It doesn't matter what religion you are, your political affiliation, your marital status or whether or not you like anchovies. Everyone buys gas, or enough "everyones" to compose a sizeable percentage of a population.

Second, the use of a gas station in this matter is ideal in terms of reaching a local community as gas stations are generally located on major road routes. Folks driving along would see the hoopla and hence more would be attracted to the event.

So when the political party, which is willing to spend money by the way to reach uncommitted or unregistered voters, says that there's no options to effectively reach the general public, think again.

And yes, I'm going to tell the local elephants about this idea next meeting.

Prince William Back With Former Love?

Okay, I have a special interest in this story on several levels.

First, ever since I first saw pictures of Kate Middleton I've noted how much the woman looks like a young me.

You read that right and I'm not bragging. I mean Ms. Middleton is attractive enough but she's no rageing beauty. But I've got pics of me at her current age and damn I looked just like her!

Thus, heh, I'd like to see this pretty young woman marry the prince much as I too deserved a prince in my life instead of the four husbands I got.

From Yahoo.com

LONDON - Prince William and former girlfriend Kate Middleton have resumed their relationship, British newspapers reported Sunday.

The young couple, who announced in April they had split, attended a party at an army barracks together earlier this month, newspapers claimed.

Now about that interview with Matt Lauer. Damn it was awful.

I understand those boys likely agreed to be interviewed because of the tribute to their mother coming on this weekend in fact. The fact that her two sons came out from the shadows much like illegal aliens here in America is indicator that THIS is an event endorsed by the royal family. For so many charities try to capitalize on the memory of Princess Diana but the one with a physical endorsement by her own sons would naturally be considered more legitimate and would likely raise more money.

Evidently those two boys have learned how to talk on and on without saying a damn thing of significance much like royals and celebrities must do so as not to offend or reveal. I listened and listened and I heard not a single word that wasn't boilerplate nonsense.

Matt Lauer pretended like he was a big honcho asking serious questions but they never said a word that revealed...anything.

A SERIOUS question would have been directed to Prince Harry....ie "What do you think of the many rumors that Prince Charles is not your real father?"

Well sure I know that if ANY of the many journalists who interviewed the two princes, never mind how NBC hyped the interview as "exclusive", that the journalists daring to ask would have been shut down and sent away.

But even to the most innocuous of questions the two princes went on and on saying a bunch of words that when all put together, said essentially nothing.

Prince William especially disappointed me because hey, eloquent he's not. He does look like his mother, goodness, but frankly I thought he wasn't even all that handsome.

The point being that those boys are lending their image and endorsement to an event on behalf of their mother and while that's noble and good, those boys didn't tell us a thing so let us not be fooled.

Heh. Larry King Alive Grills Paris Hilton Unmercifully

Like the rest of this country who carry this country on our backs, I'm not all that interested in Paris Hilton. Although I do, ahem, do this Pop Culture thing once a week but even at that, how much can one write about this vapid young woman?

Hey, it's not us humble Bloggers out chasing this woman down. It's not Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham or Sean Hannity.

It's the Lamestream Media, dammit. THEY choose who's the big news deal on any given day and I'm going out on a limb here and will suggest that if a survey were to be taken of us mundane type of folk, we'd likely NOT choose Paris Hilton.

"But we only are giving our viewers what they want!" the Lamestream exclaims.

Bullshit. Forgive me my English. Ain't no way us "viewers" are living our lives riveted on the edges of our seats awaiting news of Paris Hilton. If we watch the crap we watch it because it's on the TV and sound and sight bytes pass by our ears and eyes.

Who the hell does NBC,ABC, CBS and yes, even Fox news, think they're kidding? I could have went an entire week without a single word about Paris Hilton and I'd still be the same person with the same lot in life.

From Yahoo.com:

She will be on for the hour," Bridget Leininger told Reuters. "We had (filmmaker) Michael Moore originally scheduled for that time."

News of King's exclusive comes the day after two major networks, NBC and ABC, both passed on Hilton interviews amid reports and subsequent denials that they were willing to pay for the first interview.

In addition, I heard, (because I did NOT watch) some of those hardball questions Larry King threw at Hilton and talk about your snort.

Larry asked Paris, I'm not making this up, what city she was named after, what hotel chain her family owned and the most infamous, did she ever use drugs.

To which, heh, Paris said with a sincerity only a total fake could emulate, that she had NEVER did drugs.

And yet a film clip of Paris obviously smoking a marijuana pipe was shown, a film clip that's evidently a public thing.

Not that I mind if Paris took a hit of the sweet weed and heck, I certainly don't mind if Paris lies to Larry King as that old fart deserves to be lied to, just so long as we know Paris is lying.

We are amused.

"Big Brother" Premieres on CBS Next Week

As a highly trained Blogger (imitating Rush Limbaugh), I receive many emails from various and sundry TV stations and PR folk. This is because I do reviews of reality shows and the emailers might like me to review theirs.

Heh. Well I only review shows that interest ME. And should yon reader ask just who the hell do I think I am I must respond that I am absolutely nobody and if a reader didn't like what I like than fine, move along.

I do intend to review this reality series so I decided to go ahead and publish CBS' blurb about the show.

BIG BROTHER 8 will premiere on the CBS Television Network on Thursday, July 5 (8:00–9:00 PM, ET/PT), kicking off a multi-platform summer that will include presentations of the series online, on the phone and, for the first time, on Showtime Networks. New and creative secret twists will play out during the summer broadcasts as BIG BROTHER 8 follows the relationships and conflicts of players who live together in a house outfitted with dozens of cameras and microphones recording their every move 24 hours a day. One by one, the houseguests will vote each other out of the house. At the end of three months, the last remaining houseguest will receive the grand prize.

Making Love on a Roof Could Lead to Death

Below is this news story in its entirety.

From AZ Central:

COLUMBIA, S.C. - Police on Wednesday were investigating how a naked couple fell 50 feet from the roof of a downtown office building to their deaths.

The bodies were found on the road by a passing cabdriver around 5 a.m. Wednesday.

Clothing was discovered on the roof, leading authorities to suspect the man and woman, in their early 20s, may have been having sex. Their identities were not released.

Hey, a cab driver finds two naked people dead in the street. Naked people just don't suddenly up and die in the middle of the street.

However, that bit about finding clothing on the roof ......

It really does seem that this pair were having sex and somehow fell to their death.

Dear Lord....what an awful way to die. This pair were only in their 20's!

I'm betting they were drunk or high on drugs. This is not something functioning people normally do.

Finger Stuck In Gas Tank

First I consider myself a tidy woman. But I've never ever noticed "gunk" around my fuel tank and certainly would never stick my finger inside to clean it all out.

From APNEWS.com:

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) - A man felt the pain of the gas tank, and he wasn't even at a pump. Dwight Clark's dilemma occurred Wednesday afternoon in the parking lot of a pharmacy when he apparently tried to clear some gunk from around the opening of the gas tank. His finger got stuck in his gas tank's opening.

"His finger went in past the knuckle and was stuck," Huntsville Fire & Rescue Capt. Nolen Locke said. "People had sprayed WD40 all over, but that didn't work."

They had to use a blowtorch to open this fellow's car panel and remove the fuel valve along with his finger. But it wasn't over yet! The man, with his finger still stuck in the fuel valve, had to be taken to the hospital where more work had to be done to remove THAT object from his finger.

You really gotta be anal to be cleaning out your fuel valve with your finger.

Whatever Happened to that Kid Who Bested Dan Quayle?

When the infamous "potato" event took place in 1992, I was one of the many who believed everything the Lamestream media published or broadcasted. I smirked along with the rest of the country when VP Dan Quayle told a smart alec school child that the word "potato" needed an "E" at the end.

From CAPITAL CENTURY.com:

Six years out of office with two failed presidential bids now behind him, ex Vice President Quayle still ranks as America’s favorite dumb politician because of what happened in Trenton on June 15, 1992.

The real story behind Quayle and the potato story is much different than us fools in la-la land were led to believe.

First, the young kid who was chastised by Quayle for spelling potato wrong at first politely added the letter "E" at the end. By the way, flash cards provided to Quayle by his staff had the word potato spelled wrong and Quayle, dazed by so many photo ops that day, simply repeated what the card said. Although certainly the VP should have known how to spell the word, I can understand how, at times, we can get put on auto-pilot. In fact, that whole
"spelling bee" was a totally staged event.

A reporter at a local yokel paper contacted the kid, William Figueroa, and the kid, full of himself and cocky, called the VP an "idiot". Figueroa received national acclaim and was even flown in to lead the pledge of allegiance at the Democratic National Convention.

The Lamestream had made a hero out of this kid by portraying him as a poor child picked on and abused by no less than the Vice-President of the United States.

So whatever happened to this paragon of this country's education system, Mr. William Figueroa?

He was located in 1997, a high school dropout, 17 years of age and already fathering a child-out of wedlock, natch. He worked in an auto dealership cleaning cars.

Heh.

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Hell's Kitchen 2007 Loses Another Chef and Food Network's 2007 Star Begins to Emerge

Here's the weekly review of Food Network's "The Next Food Network Star" 2007 and Fox's "Hell's Kitchen" 2007.

Lots of pics you'll find nowhere else on the Internet and a wannabe cook's review of all the action.

Also we peeked into "The Next Best Thing" and got some notes and pics from the world of celebrity lookalikes.

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Quote of the Day by Rodney Dangerfield: ...I was such an ugly kid that when I played in the sandbox, the cat kept covering me up. ...I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and radio. ... I was such an ugly baby, my mother never breast fed me. She told me that she only liked me as a friend.

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The Caper of the Fried Meatloaf

And yet, the fried meatloaf was well-received by our country's military.

I don't know what it is about these food contest shows but there seems to be a great effort to appeal to the military. Last week "Hell's Kitchen" had the army featured on its show and this week, not to be outdone, Food Network goes the same route.

In fact, all contenders left on the episode which aired 6/24/07 were taken to Fort Dix army base. Also, for some odd reason, Giada DiLaurentiis was back as a selection committee guest. My guess is that the army fellows requested Giada because, well I think she's the most beautiful woman on the planet and hey, I'm a woman. Paula Deen was also a guest Food Network chef on this show but she was not on the selection committee.

The show began with a challenge involving Meals Ready to Eat, more popularly known as MRE's. The challenge was to create a more sophisticated and refined meal from an MRE and with the addition of only prepared ingredients. All contenders had 20 minutes to prepare the MRE and one minute to present their creation. JAG, who is an ex-marine, thought this challenge would be a piece of cake. Only JAG's presentation of his MRE was deemed the worst by the judges and, indeed, JAG performed poorly in this entire episode in which he should have shined.



Some of the doctored MRE meals were quite creative. Amy presented a Mexican macaroni and cheese with, amazingly, shrimp toast. JAG came up with a spicy chipolte stew with Manhattan clam chowder. Paul prepared grilled chicken with sweet potatoes and a wild dessert featuring a poppyseed cake with carmelized pineapple and, yes, M&M's. Michael created something he called crispy macaroni and cheese along with a smokey BBQ stew and some cherry applesauce.

Adrien's presentation of a rather plain meal was declared the poorest in terms of taste by the selection committee which included, in this case, members of the military who are experts on MRE's.

The worst presentation was declared to be JAG, who only shouted out the ingredients in his creation, all in a monotone and boring tone that would entice no one to eat.

Paul was declared the most creative in terms of taste and presentation.

Paul, in fact, had a very good week this past episode. This poor fellow, who does come across the TV screen as an engaging and humorous fellow at least as I see it, has had many mishaps in past episodes. On the evening of 6/24/07, Paul shone and handsomely displayed his potential. I'm kind of rooting for Paul to win this thing.

The next challenge of the evening was for the contenders, in teams of two each, to create a "taste of home" for the soldiers. The soldiers voted for their favorite home-cooked meals and the three choices were lasagne, meatloaf and chicken pot pies. With each of these main courses each chef duo was also charged with creating two side dishes and a dessert along with. The chef teams were: Amy and Rory, Jag and Paul, Michael and Adrien.

Each chef duo was also charged with creating a three minute presentation of their feast to an audience of hungry soldiers. Two hours was allowed for preparation of all food.

Jag and Paul were very amusing as this rather odd couple of JAG the ex-marine and Paul the admitted homosexual worked to create their meatloaves. The oven, as it turned out, was not functioning properly and the meatloaves would never be done in time for the presentation. In desperation JAG deep-fried the meatloaves. The air was blue as JAG's expletives dropped down from the sky, making everyone in the surround very uncomfortable.

Amy and Rory worked well on the lasagne together and their presentation was spot on.

Mike and Adrien prepared pot pie and used thinly-sliced deep-fried potatoes as the pie's "crust". Alas they served a dessert that featured frozen fruit.

Below is a short video of JAG and Paul's presentation of their feast to the troops. Their presentation was deemed the best.



Later it was time for the critiques by the selection committee.

JAG was warned about his terrible temper and concern was expressed that his military experience was a handicap this week instead of an asset.

Paul was declared the "best in show" and his smile sure can light up the TV screen. It turned out that the troops loved his and JAG's fried meatloaves!

Michael mentioned Vietnam in his team's presentation and the selection committee wondered why was this necessary. Michael's pot pie topping of those fried potatoes was considered a great success.

Adrien was declared too low-key and the selection committe thought he needed to step up his personality if he wants to stay in this contest.

The selection committee considered Rory a little too superficial and her and Amy's lasagne was not considered all that good.

Amy comes across as rigid or so declared the selection committee.

Michael was sent home this past week.



Remaining Contenders in Food Network's Next Star 2007 as of this date:

JAG
Adrien
Amy
Rory
Paul

I think Amy will be next to go home. Keep an eye out for Paul and Rory to end up as finalists in this thing.

Links to prior reviews of Food Network's Next Star 2007:
Food Network Star's web site
6/3/07-The 2007 Search for the Next Food Network Star Begins
The Cover of Bon Appetit
Feeding the NJ Nets Fans
The Fried Meatloaf Caper

Hell's Kitchen 2007-The Taste Test

Chef Ramsey, for a few moments between cussing and swearing, gathered the remaining contenders for the winning chef in "Hell's Kitchen" 2007 and subjected them, female versus male, to a taste test. This challenge required the guesser to be blindfolded and have ears covered while Ramsey placed a food morsel in his or her mouth. Some examples of those food morsels include: lobster, bok choy and seared tuna. It turned out that the girls won this challenge and as their reward they all went out to a restaurant called "Opaque" which serves food, yes it does, completely in the dark.

It seems to me that this entire exercise was a way of promoting that Opaque restaurant but that just my natural cynicism. The fellows were "punished" by having to eat a plateful of the most godawful food God put on this planet. The foodstuff included pigs' tongue, intestines, sweetbreads, perhaps an eyeball or two.



Folks, for one entire segment of this show aired on 6/25/07 I literally had to cover my ears and eyes as the sight of those guys trying to swallow that stuff, with a few of them almost vomiting, caused me to choke, gag and darn near lose my dinner. Which I was eating at the time, not a good idea.

So far as I'm concerned this scene did not need to be included and added nothing to the series.

The next challenge was in the Hell's Kitchen restaurant. On this night, the customers would be encouraged to fill out a survey and the team, male and female again, that got the most compliments/least complaints would win.

Again the flurry of a restaurant kitchen in action was shown, including lots of swearing by Chef Ramsey. Lookit, I know a restaurant kitchen is hectic, particularly during the rush times. But if you held a gun to my head I'll never admit to some sort of advantage to continuous cussing, swearing and berating of employees as being a good thing.

Below is a small 20 second video of just one tiny scene. Those blips are swear words uttered by God-fearing Chef Ramsey that had to be blipped out by the network. You decide if an entire hour of this wouldn't make your ears hurt.



After all the screaming, crying, angst and suffering, Chef Ramsey again closed down the kitchen and gathered all contenders for a more formal smack down and swearing session. According to the surveys filled out by the customers, most of them were pleased with the quality of the food but 65% would not come back and as Chef Ramsey pointed out, any winner of his or her own restaurant would be out of business immediately with that percentage of customer non-return.

Rock was chosen to pick one contender for elimination consideration while Jen was given that charge for the female team. Even though it was Bonnie who gave such a dismal performance in the female kitchen and Vinnie who messed up loads of expensive meat on the male side, Rock chose Josh for elimination while Jen chose Melissa. It's a bit obvious to me that both Rock and Jen were choosing the opposing contender who would most likely be competition for them. Bonnie is almost a hopeless case while Vinnie was full of himself and couldn't prepare a beef wellington without going through many dollars worth of meat. Even so, Rock and Jen selected the candidate most likely to beat them. Hey, it's not a bad strategy.

Chef Ramsey wasn't buying it, however. Ramsey overrode both Jen and Rock's choices and nominated Bonnie and Vinnie for elimination.

Frankly I don't know what that entire segment was about and it almost seems like a waste of time. Beyond that, Ramsey thought about HIS choices for a bit and after asking Bonnie and Vinnie some questions, he told Vinnie to hang up his apron and head on home.



Remaining Contenders for Hell's Kitchen 2007 as of this writing:
Bonnie
Melissa
Rock
Josh
Jen
Julia

I think Rock and Julia got a bit of an edge to be finalists in this thing. I reserve the right to change my mind.

Links to prior reviews of Hell's Kitchen 2007:
Web site for Hell's Kitchen
Amidst Much Cussing, on 6/4/07 the 2007 Hell's Kitchen Competition Begins
The Girls Win Everything Including Fileting the Fish
The Spaghetti Caper
The Taste Test

"The Next Best Thing"

So I tuned in to the new reality show called "The Next Best Thing" on 6/20/07. This is a reality contest that provides a $100 K prize for celebrity impersonators based on three factors in the impersonation: the look, voice and performance. On the night of this review, host Michelle Merkin and the cast were doing auditions in Hollywood, NY and Orlando. Winners would move on to Las Vegas.

I enjoyed this show and below is a montage of some of the celebrity impersonators. Since this is a new reality series it is on a fast track and the grand winner of this contest is due to be announced quite soon if not already.



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Illegal Immigration-Local Governments Deal With It More Than the Feds-And They Don't Do It All That Well Either

America's House of Lords is gearing up to try again to shove an amnesty bill down our disapproving throats.

In this editorial I provide some political cartoon relief on the matter but also, yet another terrible by-product of our illegal immigration blitz.

For local governments deal with this issue much more than the federal government and they often do an awful job of it.

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Quote of the Day Classic Quotes by Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876) Russian subversive From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots. --------------- Everything will pass, and the world will perish, but the Ninth Symphony will remain. --------------- From each according to his faculties; to each according to his needs. --------------- I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise and confirmation. --------------- To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.

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TIDBITS HOSPITAL CHART BLOOPERS (Actual writings from hospital charts) 1. The patient refused autopsy. 2. The patient has no previous history of suicides. 3. Patient has left white blood cells at another hospital. 4. She has no rigors or shaking chills but her husband states she was very hot in bed last night. 5. Patient has chest pain if she lies on her left side for over a year. 6. On the second day the knee was better and on the third day it disappeared. 7. The patient is tearful and crying constantly. She also appears to be depressed. 8. The patient has been depressed since she began seeing me in 1993. 9. Discharge status: Alive but without permission. 10. Healthy appearing decrepit 69-year old male, mentally alert but forgetful. 11. Patient had waffles for breakfast and anorexia for lunch. 12. She is numb from her toes down. 13. While in ER, she was examined, x-rated and sent home. 14. The skin was moist and dry. 15. Occasional, constant infrequent headaches. 16. Patient was alert and unresponsive. 17. Rectal examination revealed a normal size thyroid. 18. She stated that she had been constipated for most of her life, until she got a divorce. 19. I saw your patient today, who is still under our car for physical therapy. 20. Both breasts are equal and reactive to light and accommodation. 21. Examination of genitalia reveals that he is circus sized. 22. The lab test indicated abnormal lover function. 23. Skin: somewhat pale but present. 24. The pelvic exam will be done later on the floor. 25. Patient has two teenage children, but no other abnormalities.

 


Illegal Immigrants-a Bugaboo That Is Handled Even Worse at the Local Level

First, a joke:

An American, a Mexican and an Italian were robbing a bank. And it happened that they got a lot of cash in Dollars, Pesos and Liras. Back in their hiding place the American distributed the money to three even shares.

The American was doing the splitting:

"1000 Dollars for me, 1000 Pesos for you, 1000 liras for you.

1000 Dollars for me, 1000 Pesos for you, 1000 liras for you.

1000 Dollars for me, 1000 Pesos for you, 1000 liras for you."

The Mexican told the Italian, "Even though I can't stand these Yankees, I have to admit they are honest."

Now an anecdote:

This is OUTRAGEOUS.
I am hoping you have the opportunity to read this e mail regarding the utter frustration we as English-speaking Americans experience on a daily basis. Hopefully, this will go beyond just an e-mail.


This is an experience that happened to my wife.

April 1, 2007, in Denver County Traffic Court, Denver, Colorado, she had to appear in traffic court as a result of a speeding ticket. She was speeding and knew she would have a fine to pay. We have no problem with that. The rest of the court experience, however, is something we should all stand up and take exception to and ask what is happening to the United States?

She was asked to be in court by 4:30PM today, with which she complied. However, when she got there, it was announced that all ; ; non-English speaking persons with traffic violations would be taken care of first. The reasoning being that the interpreter leaves every day at the same time and does not stay late. So, a reward for not speaking English is one gets to go the front of the line.

Next, the non-English speaking individuals do not have driver's licenses or insurance. Never was it asked why they did not have licenses, what they were doing to get licenses or insurance. What they were given for driving without a license was a $35 fine. Since many of them did not have $35 they were also given payment terms. So, they are granted another reward for not having the money to pay the fines.

My wife, who was born in Denver, Colorado, raised here, and lived here all her life, was given a $249 fine for her speeding ticket, was not give n payment terms, and had to wait until all the non-speaking, aliens were treated first. If I understand this correctly:

* Let's never require the non -English speaking individuals who live in this country to learn English.
* Let's never require they become citizens of this United States of America.
* Let's never require them to ever get driver's licenses and pray they never kill someone on the road with their driving.

* Let's never require they get automobile insurance, so that all of us who do will pay higher and higher premiums.
* Let's make sure that those of us who do get injured by these individuals pay higher and higher health insurance premiums.

* Let's make sure those who can pay their fines, pay big ones to subsidize all those $35 fines on payment plans.
* Let's make sure we never inconvenience them a nd let's never inconvenience the interpreters in this country who may have to work late.

Our Country is eroding every day right before our eyes. No country in the world has ever survived having 2 major languages. We are heading down that path.

Respectfully,
John DiNardo
14476 East Caley Ave.
Aurora, Colorado 80016

Often times stories like the above are deemed untrue after some Internet sleuth or another researches the facts. I'm not going to bother trying to find this Mr. DiNardo because the above story sounds very true given my experience. I worked for hospitals several years and translators are a big deal. I also worked for a property management firm and often found myself in court in pursuit of back rent or eviction. Translators work certain hours and accomodations are made to handle their proclaimed time.

There's yet another bad result from our rampant illegal immigration. It's the plethora of localities that are dealing with their own close-to-home immigration problem and the resultant bad governance that stems from same.

The state of Delaware comes to mind. Yes Delaware's a tiny little state but it is one of the top ten states receiving illegal immigrants in this past five years. At least I read this statistic but I don't know who or what group did the research but I can sure believe it's true.

For Delaware has had an influx of immigrants and billboard help wanted ads written in Spanish dot the highways and employers promise free transportation to all who so require.

It's the big chicken industry here in the swamps of Delaware calling all these immigrants, both legal and illegal. And it's that transportation bugaboo that almost caused the state of Delaware to enact legislation that is so damn dumb and contrary to good governance that it defies common sense.

See, illegal immigrants often do not have SS#'s. Or if they have SS #'s, it's often ones they've stolen or totally made up.

When I lived in Merryland, a neighboring state of Delaware, companies that would insure cars and drivers flourished. For industry reasons I don't quite understand, car insurers in Merryland tended to rate drivers by their driving record and where in the metropolitan reason they lived. So an individual living in Baltimore often paid more insurance than a driver residing in the suburbs, the logic being, I must suppose, that the more cars on the road the more likely the chance for an accident. But hey, I'm not a member of the car insurance industry but hey again, neither are the legislators in Delaware.

Yet didn't the Delaware legislator attempt to enact a law dictating to car insurers how they must run their business?

The residents of Delaware it would seem, tend to go about their business and if the rigors of life don't get in the way they are generally happy and thriving. Much like residents of any state in the mighty union known as the United States of America. The big chicken industries will donate to legislators that they may get elected and continue to allow immigrants in the state to run the companies. The immigrants will work the jobs Delawarians won't work, although ANYBODY will work ANY job, if the price is right. Evidently immigrants are cheaper than citizens of Delaware, let's not kid ourselves.

Only Delawarians were getting very annoyed that so many drivers on Delaware roads didn't have car insurance. These drivers often didn't have car insurance because, well I don't know why. Perhaps insurance was too costly and they couldn't afford it. Perhaps they had bad driving records and car insurers, as they've done since the first car rode the highway, refused those bad risks. Or perhaps many applicants for car insurance didn't have good credit records.

You read this right. It seems that car insurers in the state of Delaware often can't get car insurance if they have bad credit records.

Delaware citizens complained, hooted and hollered about the many drivers on Delaware roads without car insurance even though the state has a law requiring car insurance. Legislators got jumpy at the volume of the irate citizens.

Now I don't know why Delaware insurers require good credit records before granting insurance coverage. Hey, it's a business. If they do stupid stuff they go out of business. Another business will come along to fill the void. It's how it works.

I suspect that there's a big problem with illegal immigrants requesting auto insurance and one of the easiest ways to find illegals in your midst is to ask for a credit check. Because in order to run a credit check, an SS# is needed. And if one is using a fake SS# than the credit record will show ....nothing. OR maybe the illegals refused to provide their fake SS#'s so they wouldn't get caught as an illegal. Whatever the reason, a bunch of drivers were riding along Delaware roads without insurance and I myself have had two fender-benders with non-insured individuals, each being driven by a Spanish-speaking individual. Might be anecdotal but hey, I don't even drive all that much!

So the Delaware legislators get it into their head that the easiest way to calm down irate Delaware citizens is to force car insurers to NOT use credit checks as a determination for eligibility for car insurance. The logic being that if car insurers would change their requirement than illegals could get car insurance and in the event of an accident most would have insurance. Anger at the explosion of uninsured drivers would be assuaged as Delaware citizens would stop their carping.

Like I said, just like citizens of every other state in our union, Delawarians don't get all uppity until something profoundly affects them.



The Republicans in the Delaware legislator managed to beat down the stupid law that would tell car insurers how to run their business. Because had that law demanding Allstate or State Farm use different standards than a credit check to grand car insurance the companies who provide car insurance would, boom, simply have left the state.

Yon reader might shrug his or her shoulders and say..."So why do the car insurers use something like a credit record to determine whether to grant insurance"? And I would state, I don't know. I'm not even convinced that car insurers use credit record checks as the SOLE criteria before crafting a policy for a driver. It could be that a credit check was just part of the application process because, go with me here, folks with bad credit records tend to not pay their bills on time. Or it could be that Delaware is a state that lends itself well to this sort of elimination criteria. Maybe somebody did a great study and discovered a positive link between bad credit and awful automobile accident rates. For all the hell I know every car insurer now uses credit records as part or total criteria for granting car insurance.

The point is, these are private businesses and if they make stupid choices than they will go out of business. I tended to think that Allstate knew more about running a car insurance company than Delaware legislators.

Had this law passed and there were no car insurers willing to do business in the state of Delaware than I suppose Delaware would have had to create its very own state-run auto insurance company. I'm going to stop here and hope that yon reader knows that once you get the state involved in anything everything goes to hell.

It was the illegal immigration problem here in Delaware which prompted this exercise in bad governance. The solution to the problem of illegal immigrants using fake SS#'s and thus lacking a credit history is about ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION, not CAR INSURANCE!

Instead of intelligently dealing with a major problem, the state of Delaware was attempting to put a big, ugly band-aid on a local problem.

I'm not even laying the blame on the little state of Delaware, which is only facing what so many other states are facing. Which is, specifically, large industries in its midst which CANNOT get enough employees. I'll go one step further and state right now that I don't even know the answer. Delaware's chicken industry is a big business which pays plenty of taxes to Delaware and helps provide an abundance of jobs for both legal and illegal Delawarians.

The solution is NOT to have local legislators across the fruited plains passing sniggly little laws which have no resemblence to good intelligent governance. Yet it is the local governments that struggle more with the day-to-day problems of illegal immigrants than any single Lord in America's House of Lords known more commonly as the Senate.

I only have this little Delaware anecdote. I shudder to think what other outrageous laws might have been passed by local legislators as they struggle to please so many disparate populations, often stepping all over free enterprise in the process.

It's the FEDERAL government's job to protect our borders. Somewhere in the Federal Government handbook 101 one of the top ten rules has to be 1)PROTECT AND SECURE YOUR BORDERS.

If the federal government was effectively protecting our borders than thousands of small localities across the fruited plains wouldn't be struggling to deal with a problem too huge for small governments to handle.

Yet another result of this country's huge illegal immigration problem and unintended effects.

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True Crime-Bobby Cutts-A Very Fertile Guy Finally Resorted to Murder for Birth Control

The arrest of the very fertile Bobby Cutts for the murder of pregnant Jessie Davis has been occupying the True Crime coverage this week.

We've got lots on this crime as well in this True Crime post. In addition we've got a naked couple dead in the street, a foster mother from hell and a real mother who left her children alone to die in a fire while she danced the night away.

A stupid criminal story included and a video of a stupid criminal IN THE ACT.

Finally, who stole Herman Munster's identity?

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Children Died While the Mothers Danced

According to Love's attorney, the women were only at the bar for fifteen to twenty minutes and each only had one beer.

From WRAL.com:

PITTSBURGH — The mothers of five children killed in a house fire surrendered to police Thursday to face involuntary manslaughter charges for allegedly leaving the youngsters alone while they went to a bar.

This is a heart-breaker of a case. Sure, it was dumb to leave the kids alone. The children played with matches. The two 8-year old boys allegedly in charge of the children escaped the rageing fire. Five other children died in the blaze.

Now the mothers are charged with involuntary manslaughter and I suppose they must be charged with something. Young children shouldn't be left alone. We all know that. Yet I must wonder, wouldn't the death of one's children be punishment enough?

How is the loss of these children any more criminal than the missing Madeleine McCann? Madeleine was left alone with her younger twin siblings by her British physician parents as they went out for dinner. When they returned home, Madeleine was missing, apparently abducted. The McCanns have been charged with nothing but did they not leave their children alone?

Of course in the McCann case the "crime" happened in Portugal and the parents were British.

Children need close supervision and parents who don't know this, or do this....well they might lose them. Society can only do so much.

Making Love on a Roof Could Lead to Death

Below is this news story in its entirety.

From AZ Central:

COLUMBIA, S.C. - Police on Wednesday were investigating how a naked couple fell 50 feet from the roof of a downtown office building to their deaths.

The bodies were found on the road by a passing cabdriver around 5 a.m. Wednesday.

Clothing was discovered on the roof, leading authorities to suspect the man and woman, in their early 20s, may have been having sex. Their identities were not released.

I add this to the post because it could be a True Crime. Hey, a cab driver finds two naked people dead in the street. Naked people just don't suddenly up and die in the middle of the street.

However, that bit about finding clothing on the roof ......

It really does seem that this pair were having sex and somehow fell to their death.

Dear Lord....what an awful way to die. This pair were only in their 20's!

I'm betting they were drunk or high on drugs. This is not something functioning people normally do.

The Sad Tale of Jessie Davis

The death of Jessie Davis has been occupying the air waves this past week. It is a tragic story. For Jessie Davis was nine months pregnant with a little girl she intended to name Chloe. She was also mother of a cute little fellow named Blake.

Blake's father, Bobby Cutts jr., killed Davis in front of him then buried her body in a shallow grave that same night.

From the CantonRep:

Stark County sheriff's deputies and the FBI believe the body was dumped there by Bobby L. Cutts Jr., a Canton police officer boyfriend of the 26-year-old Davis. Cutts is father of Davis' 2-year-old boy and is believed to be the father of her unborn girl. She was scheduled to deliver July 3. They're investigating whether he was assisted by a high school classmate, and were searching her Canton home tonight.

At times it seemed like each passing hour brought more information on the then missing Jessie Davis. All week the sound of Jessie's mother could be heard via the desperate 911 call she made when she found her daughter missing while little Blake was left alone.

There wasn't much doubt on anybody's mind that the father of Jessie's children was somehow involved in her disappearance. This is True Crime 101.

As the days passed by and as more of Jessie's family and friends talked to various reporters, I began to wonder. First, go with me here, but Bobby Cutts is married. Why would a young woman with as much going for her as Jessie had get so deeply involved with a married man? By "deeply involved" I clarify...having two children with someone is, by me, deeply involved.

While Blake could have been an accident, could the conception of baby Chloe been anything other than planned? Bear in mind that Jessie received support for Blake via deductions from Cutts' paycheck. Receiving support via paycheck deduction would be a sign of estrangement, right? So Jessie went ahead and got pregnant again? They weren't close enough for him to just give her money for the care of Blake and then there's that little matter of Cutts' wife.

Well hey I've been censored on other group forums for daring to mention this little factoid but this is my Blog and the inability of others to "speak ill of the dead" don't apply. Because sometimes, ladies and gems, folks end up dead because of some really bad choices that THEY make.

Of course Jessie Davis didn't deserve to die! Certainly young Blake deserves his Mommy alive while now he has neither a mother or a father.

I got so tired of hearing, over and over and over, that Jessie is a WONDERFUL woman. I mean, how the hell wonderful could she be having baby after baby with a married man? And don't go telling me that she didn't know he was married. Again, Jessie received child support via paycheck deduction. Surely they had a reason for this setup. Jessie made sure she got support in this manner because, well Bobby didn't live with her or their relationship wasn't based on an abundance of trust.

Then she got pregnant again?



Yes, the second pregnancy could have been an accident. Whether she got pregnant or not, evidently she did something with Mr. Cutts that caused a pregnancy. I'm not seeing anything "wonderful" here at all. For whatever reason, Jessie saw nothing odd about having to garnish her boyfriend's paycheck to get child support and she saw nothing wrong with Bobby already having a wife. She saw nothing wrong with having another child with this paragon of manhood.

Okay, maybe Jessie IS wonderful but is also amazingly stupid.

Now what about this Cutts fellow? Dear Lord this is a fellow who needs a vasectomy IMMEDIATELY. Someone needs to tell Cutts that murder as birth control is messy and might land you in jail.

For Bobby Cutts has a child with his wife, he also had a child with another woman he never married and then there's the two he had with Jessie Davis. Why does he have to keep making babies, this man? If he wants the pleasure of these women's company, how about he wears a condom and avoid all this confusion?

Bobby Cutts also has a web site, allegedly a "swingers" site. In fact, it's been rumored that Cutts and his wife were "swingers", hence, perhaps, his relationship with Jessie. Jessie could have used birth control, however, and for that matter, so could Cutts. Why do they insist on bringing innocent babies into the world for their lack of self-control?

Now we are to understand that Cutts had yet ANOTHER lady friend, one who may have helped the man bury Jessie?

The fellow has to have one that drags the ground as he walks the earth on his sainted and fertile masculine feet.

For now I'll accept that Jessie Davis may have been a wonderful woman. But no one could deny she was a bit stupid and bit shy of morals.

Man with marijuana cigar behind ear asks Port St. Lucie cop for directions

I thought I'd copy the headline exactly as it appeared in the news item below.

From the Sun-Sentinel:

PORT ST. LUCIE – Maurice Stuckey made a critical error Wednesday when he asked Officer Matt Wood for directions but forgot to remove the marijuana "blunt" tucked behind his left ear.

I'm imagining this fellow running down the street, flagging down two cops for information. I'm imagining that big blunt sticking out from behind his ear in that manner that carpenters put pencils to mark for cuts behind their ear. I'm imagining the cop regarding this man asking for directions while trying to stifle a smile at that big blunt sticking out from this guy's head.

Heh.

The Foster Mother from Hell

Society has no control over who reproduces and who doesn't. This is a good thing.

Society DOES have control over who is granted temporary custody of children not theirs. Yet time and again this Blog has featuring chilling true stories of those charged and paid for investigating child abuse takiing their paychecks but not doing their job.

Here's another story of a Social Service department that ignored the obvious. This is from the State of Washington, a state with many, many failings on behalf of the children counting on them for help.

From the News Tribune.com:

It took 10 years for the state of Washington to decide Chornice Lewis was an unfit foster mother.

The price of official inertia was a young girl's vision.

Lewis, 33, is awaiting trial on two charges of assault, including torture. Her plea: not guilty.

The victim: her claimed cousin and foster daughter, now 16, who lived with Lewis for a decade in Tacoma and South King County.

State records show the girl was abused for years: beaten, burned, locked in a storage closet and a car trunk, and partially blinded with hypodermic needles.

Her torment was no secret.

Keep in mind here that Chornice was NOT this child's biological mother. Chornice was her foster mother, given this assignment by the state of Washington and by virtue of the term "foster", was subject to periodic inspections by Washington State's Department of Social Services.

Teachers and neighbors constantly informed the foster care workers about this child's torment but hey, there was the paycheck and that's all that mattered.

The state of Washington readily admits its failure!

"A system breakdown" was the phrase leaders of the Department of Social and Health Services used in an internal review of the case, completed in February 2007. As a result, DSHS has reassigned and retrained workers. Agency leaders say they have revised their administrative practices.

So they've "reassigned and retrained" these total failures? HOW ABOUT THEY GET THEIR LAZY BUTTS FIRED?!?!?

Common sense. It doesn't apply when dealing with the mighty government workers' unions.

Not only do taxpayers fork up big bucks for total losers, innocent children supposedly being cared for are living lives of terror and fear.

It doesn't get any more disgusting than this.

For Ten Bucks I'll Sell You Morticia Adams' Identity

Heh. They really, really did buy Herman Munster's credit card.

From the News Tribune:

Did Internet thieves steal Herman Munster's MasterCard number?
Crooks in an underground chat room for selling stolen credit card numbers and personal consumer information offered pilfered data purportedly about Herman Munster, the 1960s Frankenstein-like character from "The Munsters" TV sitcom.

The thieves apparently didn't realize Munster was a fictional TV character and dutifully offered to sell Munster's personal details - accurately listing his home address from the television series as 1313 Mocking Bird Lane - and what appeared to be his MasterCard number. Munster's birth date was listed as Aug. 15, 1964, suspiciously close to the TV series' original air date in September 1964.

This Video Should Win a Prize

Please watch this hapless criminal as he attempts to rob a store. Perhaps this fellow should get a new career.



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Think You Can Dance-Down to Eight Couples; America's Got Talent-the Losers are Hilarious

Fox's "So You Think You Can Dance" is turning out to be quite an entertaining show for those who enjoy watching the art of the dance.

ABC's "America's Got Talent" has provided at the least a chuckle with the many acts presented, many of them in the nutso category.

We've got a review of both shows plus pics you'll find nowhere else on the Internet.

Snakes on the head, stains on the shirt...just a few oddities featured on this post.

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Correction to "Wite-Out" Tidbit

In a "Bizarre Tidbit" recently, one of the "facts" as presented was who invented that popular item for typewriters, Wite-Out. My bizarre tidbit was erroneous. A reader wrote challenging that assertion, that it was Mike Nesmith's Mom who invented "Wite-Out". Mike Nesmith is a member of the singing group the Monkees.

So I did some research and per Wikipedia, Wite-Out was invented by a Mother of a Monkee. Heh.

Which goes to show that a Blogger can never get away with the horrendous errors of the Lamestream journalists. Bloggers have smart readers who catch them immediately while the Lamestream liars can continue on with their lies with impunity.

I'm just saying.....

"So You Think You Can Dance?" Down to Eight Couples

The measure of a sucessful reality contest series can be judged by how long it is kept running on the air. For surely the producers cannot start a contest, no matter how absurd or bizarre, and not finish it on through to a winner? Hence "The Bachelor" eliminated contenders five at a time to reduce the amount of time that rather unpopular show ran, while "American Idol" begins in January and ends in May.

Fox's "So You Think You Can Dance" is now down to eight couples. The series does end up with one winner but since it is a dancing show, the concept of "couples" is all-important; much more important than, say, "American Idol". Still, this series has sixteen finalists left. The contenders are not being knocked off ten at a time so I think this must be a popular reality contest series.

On the evening of 6/20/07 nine couples competed. As is the show's methodology, the bottom three couples would be named the following night based on audience vote. Each member of the bottom three couples would then have to dance solo in what is termed the "dance for their life". The judges then choose a male and a female out of this bottom six to be eliminated.

Lauren and Neil danced a Hip-Hop routine. Neil performed a spectacular dive over his partner. On 6/21/07 this couple was deemed safe.

Jessi and Pasha performed a Jazz routine. This couple was one of the bottom three couples on the following night's elimination round.

Jamie and Hok performed a Samba, cuter than all get out in that this is the last couple in the world one would expect to do the Samba. The judges agreed, one declaring the performance at "not a high level". Jaimie and Hok were judged safe by the viewing audience.

Lacey and Kamaron performed a Broadway dance. The judges wanted to see a "sassier" routine but this couple too was declared safe during the elimination round.

Anya and Danny performed a Viennese Waltz which was beautiful and this couple too will be moving on.

Sabra and Dominic performed a Contemporary routine. The judges declared Dominic a "force to be reckoned with". This couple passed audience muster as well.



Sara and Jesus performed a Paso Doble. One judge declared that their "carriage and presence was fabulous". I didn't see it but okay, Sara and Jesus will also be moving up per the audience votes of that evening.

Shauna and Jimmy performed something called "stepping" but further clarification reveals this to be a Hip-Hop routine on steroids. The judges declared that this couple sure did "step it up" but the viewing audience disagreed. Shauna and Jimmy were declared part of the bottom three during the elimination round.



Faina and Cedric performed a Foxtrot which one judge declared was like a dance "Ginger Rogers and an insecure Michael Jackson".



On 6/21/07 the elimination round aired and three couples, Jessi and Pasha, Faina and Cedric, Shauna and Jimmy, were declared as being in the bottom three.

These six dancers then had to perform a short solo routine in a dance for their lives that would keep the judges from sending them home.

Jessi danced to "Hurts So Bad" and she showed her underpants. I wasn't impressed with her routine. Pasha danced to the tune "Ain't Nothing Wrong With That" and he made great sexy moves during his solo routine. Shauna performed to "Everything" and I thought she looked chunky and awkward. Jimmy danced to "Veins" and frankly, by himself and to my untrained eyes, Jimmy didn't look like a dance champion at all. More, he resembled a homosexual fellow who can maybe cut up a rug at a party but certainly not winning material.

Faina danced to "Do You Love Me?" and hey, this is a great dancing tune, no? I thought Faina looked great but I must remind that this Faina's second time in the bottom three and I pondered that she's not long for this contest. Cedric danced to "Hide & Seek". Cedric danced in his own double-jointed manner. Cedric also is dancing a second solo dance for his life and the judges had some stern words for their unique dancer.



After the solor performances the six contenders lined up for the judge's verdict or eviction. Shauna's solo danced was not liked by the judges but, evidently, Faina was even worse. Faina was sent home.

The judges deemed Pasha's solo not all that great but Jimmy's was worse. There was a great suspense when the field narrowed down to Cedric and Jimmy. The judges said they were torn in that Cedric was a unique dancer but he is also a fellow who can't seem to work well with a dance partner. Cedric's been on the chopping block twice and while the judges said they liked his unique style, he better not let his partner down again or he won't get any slack.

Jimmy was sent home.

So Cedric's still in the contest but he'll be gone soon. Cedric is a very unique dancer, sadly, and he's a bit fun to watch. It's almost as if his limbs and bones are made of rubber and his dancing is as fluid as such bones would allow. Alas he appears to be a dancer who can't dance with partners all that well as rubber bones are more of a solo act than a partnership asset.

Be on the lookout for Neil and Lauren to pull ahead in this series.

The top 16 of the 2007 series of "So You Think You Can Dance" are, as of this writing:
Shauna
Lauren
Neil
Cedric
Jessi
Pasha
Sara
Jesus
Jaimie
Hok
Anya
Danny
Kameron
Lacey
Sabra
Dominic

Links to prior reviews of So You Think Can Dance 2007:

The Top 20 for 2007
Down to Eight

"America's Got Talent" Goes to Chicago

A couple of notes on this reality contest series as there's really not much to review as the show is still on the road, still seeking outstanding and unusual talent.

First, Sharon Osbourne has been a most enjoyable judge in this series. She's a little too nice to some of the crazy ones and at times one must question her sense of talent but women are generally nicer judges. Sharon has a very advanced vocabulary and mastery of the English language and is very attractive for a woman around my age. I gotta wonder how this woman lived with drugged-up Ozzy all those years.

Second, in each evening's viewing there is always one contender that has a big emotional breakdown due to rejection. This is not unique, of course, to just "America's Got Talent". "American Inventor" goes crazy featuring would-be inventors sobbing their hearts out that their bird cage was rejected. But it gets old. I have no problem with the nut cases going to these auditions with hopes of a few moments in the sunshine of the camera. For surely some of the weird entrants have to KNOW that there's not a chance. "American Idol" had one fellow who was so bad but he went on to become a folk legeand. The producers spot a kook case and feature their "talent" in the early shows of the contest to perk up interest and perhaps bring a laugh.

So why are they crying? We once had a little girl with pink streaks in her hair. Her mother was with her. She couldn't sing. It was nice that she got some moments on TV but I'm betting she got those moments because a)they either asked her to cry for the camera or b)she cried and the producers thought it was the perfect icon for the heartbreak of show business of some such.

Anyway, Chicago had it's share of kooks, nuts and unique entertainers. We had a Hillary lookalike, guys with no shirts, a fellow with unknown stains on his shirt, a bee-bopper named Butterscotch, a mime/comedian as if a mim could ever be funny, and a routine featuring snakes.



Some of the ones that were accepted were weird as well. One fellow, a Pakistani fellow named Kashif, did some sort of dance that the judges loved. I watched this guy dance and he wasn't awful. But one Muslim guy moving around a little on stage, what's the great talent there?

There was one terrific magic act, a singer named Cas Haley who sang a Sting song better than Sting, according to one judge.



Also accepted was a group of guys who performed on stilts and a guy dressed as Shakira.

It will be fun to see where these crazy acts go.



Links to prior reviews of America's Got Talent 2007:
NBC's "America's Got Talent" Web Site
America's Got Talent Premiers 6/5/07
The 6/19/07 episode

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Pop Culture-Bedbugs Are Back; Where Are the Toads?

The liberals in California built this fabulous toad crossing but the toads refuse to use it.

Also in this Pop Culture post we've got the next blockbuster movie "The Return of the Bedbugs".

Also a fellow with green blood, "Britain's Got Talent", blind items and human interest and gossip tidbits as required.

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Quote of the Day In Bill Gates' book (Business @ The Speed of Thought), he lays out 11 rules that students do not learn in high school or college. He argues that our feel good, politically correct teachings have created a generation of kids with no concept of reality who are set up for failure in the real world. RULE 1 - Life is not fair; get used to it. RULE 2 - The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself. RULE 3 - You will NOT make 40 thousand dollars a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice president with a car phone, until you earn both. RULE 4 - If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure. RULE 5 - Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping; they called it opportunity. RULE 6 - If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them. RULE 7 - Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you are. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parents' generation, try "delousing" the closet in your own room. RULE 8 - Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades; they'll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life. RULE 9 - Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. Do that on your own time. RULE 10 - Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Web Site Worth the Visit Coke Addicts Convention Really....they had a convention. Check the site below for some pics. ABOVE SITE HERE

TIDBITS 1. The Wall Street Journal is read by the people who run the country. 2. The Washington Post is read by people who think they run the country. 3. The New York Times is read by people who think they should run the country and who are very good at crossword puzzles. 4. USA Today is read by people who think they ought to run the country but don't really understand The New York Times. They do, however, like their statistics shown in pie charts. 5. The Los Angeles Times is read by people who wouldn't mind running the country -- if they could find the time -- and if they didn't have to leave Southern California to do it. 6. The Boston Globe is read by people whose parents used to run the country and did a far superior job of it, thank you very much. 7. The New York Daily News is read by people who aren't too sure who's running the country and don't really care as long as they can get a seat on the train. 8. The New York Post is read by people who don't care who's running the country as long as they do something really scandalous, preferably while intoxicated. 9. The Miami Herald is read by people who are running another country but need the baseball scores. 10. The San Francisco Chronicle is read by people who aren't sure there is a country . . . Or that anyone is running it; but if so, they oppose all that they stand for. There are occasional exceptions if the leaders are handicapped minority feminist atheist dwarfs who also happen to be illegal aliens from any another country or galaxy, provided of course, that they are not Republicans. 11. The National Enquirer is read by people trapped in line at the grocery store. 12. The New Orleans Times-Picayune is read by people who have recently caught a fish and need something in which to wrap it.

 


"Britain's Got Talent"

The winner of this show has received national attention in America. I'm reviewing its sister show, "America's Got Talent", America's Got Talent Premiers 6/5/07

The tenor who won Britain's show does have an amazing voice.

From ITV:

Two million votes were cast by the British public. For the big winner, Welshman Paul Potts, tonight starts a week of newspaper interviews, magazine features and TV appearances. Life won't be quite the same ever again.

As Ant and Dec congratulated the singer - or was that held him up? - he told them, "I can't believe I've won it, I'm like jelly. Performing for The Queen means absolutely everything. Thank you for believing in me".

The man Simon Cowell described as "a shy and humble guy with a great talent" will now "be in the recording studio next week making his first album".

As well as the £100,000 prize cheque, the Britain's Got Talent winner will perform at the Royal Variety Performance, by invitation of Her Majesty The Queen.

Click here to listen to this fellow's incredible voice. And tune into my review's of "America's Got Talent". It's a hoot.



They're Baaaaaack....

When I was about five years old, we had bedbugs. Yes we did. In fact, we had a terrible case of bedbugs in my Baltimore city tract house.

Our bedbug infestation was not helped by our tendency, particularly the tendency of my brother, to wet the bed.

Yes my mother fought the things. She regularly stripped all of our sheets and washed them in a wringer washer with almost an entire bottle of bleach. The infestation would die down for a while but soon they'd be right back.

I hated getting up in the morning because my body would be covered with bumps from the bedbug bites. It was a terrible, terrible way to live.

From KNOXNEWS.com:

Decidedly creepy and the very definition of crawly, an army of tiny insects is on the march, infiltrating hidden corners across the country in its insatiable quest to feast on your blood while you sleep. Yes, America, bed bugs are back.

Largely absent, or at least little noticed, for more than 50 years, these little suckers have now been detected making people miserable in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Since the new millennium began, pest-control companies have reported a 70 percent or higher uptick in bed-bug calls, and some entomologists predict that rate to continue or even grow.

Yet as I remember, the bedbug problem only lasted about two years and then boom, they were gone, never to return. I don't know what made them go away as the bedwetting did not stop until we were ten years old. But we moved from house to house as a result of my parents' divorce and at times even lived in tiny apartments. Still we had no more bedbugs.

Now I know that I'm not nuts, there really is such a thing as bedbugs. According to the article above, bedbugs haven't been seen in any quantity in America for over 50 years. Well I am 57 years old, so the timing is right.

And it would sure be unkind to mention that this resurrection of the bedbug is coincidentally a problem in proportion to the growth of our illegal alien population.

So I won't mention it.

Seinfeld's Rape Joke Raising Hackles

First, it's that time of year when movies are the big thing. I do not go to movie theaters and have not for over thirty years. I'm not particularly proud of that factoid but not ashamed either. But I've sure noticed all the movie hyping and that one with yet another mere mortal charged with a mighty task by none other than God Himself is really getting old. You'd think "Evan Almighty" was the 2007 version of Ben Hur.

Anyway, Jerry Seinfeld is evidently involved in producing an animated film about Bees and on that topic, he made a comment about rape.
From Radaronline:

People who combat rape for a living were less than amused by Jerry Seinfeld's uncharacteristic foray into shock humor today.
Promoting his new animated film, Bee Movie, in the New York Daily News today, the usually family-friendly comic quipped, "Bees have the only perfect society on earth ... They have no crime, they have no drugs, they have no rape. A little rape, but it's not that bad."

So okay, I don't know enough about bees to understand how they have "a little rape" so maybe the joke's lost on me.

But there are plenty out there who are NOT laughing.

Yes, I know rape isn't a joke subject. But if Chrystal Magnum of Duke fame can cry a rape that didn't happen and suffer no punishment for it, that fact alone belittles the horror that is rape. Why aren't all these organizations boo-hooing about Jerry Seinfeld's rather harmless joke down in Durham and marching for the most well known fake rape-accuser ....ever....to be punished for casting future doubt on future REAL rape victims who dare to report the crime?

The Toads Won't Use the Toad Crossing

Okay, here's something I seldom do but darn it I read all about it and I got the cutest picture below. So I'm reporting this story with no links, quotes or anything but my ageing memory as a source.

It seems the liberals in California got it into their head that some toads would be greatly bothered by a new road so they built a special toad crossing for the little critters.

Only the toads wouldn't use the special toad crossing because animals, hey they understand quite well what they need to survive and be comfortable while doing it. Those animal rights activists so often look like real fools when they humanly intercede with nature.



Yes I know building a road interferes with nature in that before the road there were probably trees or such in the same spot. But God provided the materials to make an asphalt road and gave mankind the brains to do it and hey, humans are people too. As most animal lovers know, and I include myself in this category, the critters find a way to survive. It's rare, extremely rare, for humankind to eliminate a species. No matter what the animal rights kooks tell you.

We have a regular little toad factory here in Serendipity Shore in the swamps of Delaware. We have toads everywhere. Granddaughter Kaitlyn Mae regularly catches toads and she will carry them around the yard in her hand so that they may enjoy our morning exercise. Kaitlyn maintains that the toads too enjoy the benefits of our morning exercise and she names her toad friends. We've had toads named Bruce, Dennis and one female Kaitlyn named Melinda.

Our dog also has been known to find a toad to two and our dog has discovered they don't taste very good.

Toads know how to get around and a big road isn't going to stop them. I could have told those California toad activists that a toad crossing was a waste of time.

There is no shortage of toads in the world. There will always be plenty of toads. Which is a good thing because they eat the bugs in our gardens.

Heh.

Man Bleeds Green Blood

From Fox News.com:

Canadian surgeons received the shock of their careers while trying to insert an arterial line into a man who was suffering from compartment syndrome and needed an urgent procedure to save his legs from permanent damage.

Surgeons were having trouble inserting the line, but what happened next seemed like science fiction. The man began oozing dark green blood out of the catheter, not unlike Mr. Spock might have done if he was on the operating table.

It would turn out that the above is a true story. As it turned out, the fellow in question was taking a medicine for migraine headaches that included sulphur as a component. Sulphur molecules that attach to hemoglobin cause the blood to turn green because they reduce the blood's ability to carry oxygen. This particular patient was taking this medication in amounts way above that prescribed and he was a smoker.

Kristy Swanson's Weird Complaint

I covered the reality series "Skating With Celebrities" the year Kristy met Lloyd Eisler. It was almost a romance made for a Lifetime movie. Kristy was a contender and Eisler was the professional skater partner to Kristy.

From Yahoo.com:

Kristy Swanson pressed assault charges Sunday against the ex-wife of her companion and former "Skating With Celebrities" partner, Lloyd Eisler, the actress' representative said.

Police took pictures of bruises on her back and other parts of her body to document injuries Swanson claimed she got during a scuffle with Eisler's ex-wife, Marcia O'Brien, on Friday in Canada, said Swanson spokesman Michael Sands.

Only Lloyd was still married to hiw wife when Kristy got pregnant with Eisler's child. Now this story above is confusing as all get out. For it turns out that Eisler's ex-wife filed charges against Kristy FIRST.

Okay, ladies, play nice. Now WHO hit WHO first?

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